Homepage for Sean Mulligan, PhD.

Current Status: Employed, and On the Job Market for Fall 2008
Current Academic Status:  PhD.
    Doctoral Dissertation Completed and Defended.
    Convocation Ceremony 19th October, 2007		 Academic History:
1999 Master of Arts, Philosophy, U.W.O.
1997 Honours Bachelor of Arts, History and Philosophy
         Trent University
Homepage for University of Western Ontario Homepage for Trent University

 

Link to Curriculum Vitae and Teaching Dossier (Out of Date - Updates Pending)

 

Huron University College - Phone - Email - Office - Fax - Map
Contact Information:
Phone:  (519) 438-7224, ext. 249
Fax:      n.a.
Email:    mulligan@uwo.ca		 Office Hours:
A 207b (Administrative Wing, Second Floor)
Wednesdays 1:30-2:30, By Appointment Only
Please Book Appointments via email
Homepage for Huron University College (Campus map link unavailable)

 

Current Employment at Huron University College 2007/2008
Faculty of Arts and Social Science

Instructor: Interdisciplinary Studies 021E
"Inquiry, Interpretation, and Rhetoric"

 

 Department of Philosophy

Instructor: Philosophy 031F
"Right and Wrong"

Instructor: Philosophy 030G
"Reality and What We Can Know of It"
Homepage for Rhetoric (Homepages under construction.)

 

UWO - Phone - Email - Office - Fax - Map
Contact Information:
Phone:  (519) 661-2111, ext. 81338
Fax:      (519) 661-3299
Email:    mulligan@uwo.ca		 Office Hours:
Talbot College 352A
Tuesdays 2:30-3:30, By Appointment Only
Please Book Appointments via email
Homepage for U.W.O. Philosophy Campus Map - Talbot College@Perth&Middlesex

 

Employment at the University of Western Ontario
     Current:

Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Part-Time Faculty Instructor
Department of Philosophy

Phil145 "Metaphysics and Epistemology of Witchcraft"
      (Full Year Course)
Phil 020E  "Introduction to Philosophy"
      (Summer Day, 2006)

 

      Previous:

Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Part-Time Faculty Instructor
Program in Media, Information, and Technoculture

M.I.T. 275F        "Philosophy of Personal Identity in Film"
M.I.T. 376G        "Witch Hunts in the Modern Era"
M.I.T. 275G        "Appearance and Reality" 
                            (New Course in January 2007)

 
Homepage for Witchcraft Homepages for MIT 275F" Appearance" and MIT 376G "Witch Hunts"

 

Current Research Activities

Dissertation:
   "If Fishes Were Made of Iron: Aristotle's Thought Experiments"

Areas of Specialization:
   Ancient Philosophy, Mediaeval Philosophy

Areas of Competency:
      History of Philosophy (Ancient, Mediaeval, Early Modern),
     Ethics
     Logic

 

Ongoing Research and Teaching Interests:

Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas

The Witch Craze, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Reformation History, Savonarola, Alexander VI, Paul IV

History of Scientific Thought, Scientific Revolution, Progress in the 19th Century, Fin-de-Ciecle Europe, Austrian History

Modern Era Witch Hunts, 19th-20th Century Political History, Rhetoric, Political Discourse

 

Conference Activities

“Descartes, Grandier, and Spee:  Philosophers Challenge the Witch Craze”
Trent University Undergraduate Philosophy Society (Invited)
Trent University
February 2nd, 2007 (Upcoming)

Commentary on J. West (Newman) “Aristotle Through the Looking Glass”
Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference (Invited)
York University
May 27th to 3rd June, 2006

"Boethius and Intelligible Particulars"
Canadian Philosophical Association
University of Western Ontario
Spring, 2005

"Philosophy vs. Paranoia - Rationalism and the Witchcraze"
One Day Interdisciplinary Research Showcase:
"Friday the 13th: Do You Dare? Risk Taking and Risk Management"
Friday the 13th of May 2005
University of Western Ontario

"Why Nothing is Impossible: Augustine on Quantities of Being"
One Day Symposium on Topics in Philosophy of Religion
Department of Philosophy&Religious Studies, King's College
Department of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario
February 6th 2005, King's College (London, On.)

"Shape Without Matter:  Boethius on the Objects of the Imagination"
Western Canadian Philosophical Association
October 29th to 31st, University of Victoria

"Plato the Sophist"
Western Graduate Research Forum
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Society of Graduate Students
Spring, 2000

"Aristotle on Friendship"
Western Graduate Research Forum
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Society of Graduate Students
Spring, 1999


 

Updated:  25sept07

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